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Also Known As Sir James Alfred Ewing
Born March 27, 1855 • Dundee • Scotland
Died January 7, 1935 (aged 79) • Cambridge • England
Subjects Of Study electromagnetism • hysteresis
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Sir Nevill F. Mott at the ceremony with his Nobel Prize for Physics, 1977.
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